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Feedback on Mac Firefox Solicited
by , 3:45 PM EDT, April 23rd, 2007
The Firefox team would like to hear from Mac users about what they should do to improve the Mac OS X version, according to a post by Colin Barrett.
"As the Firefox release cycle marches onwards, there’s been a lot of talk about what sort of things are really affecting people day to day that we should fix, particularly on the Mac. If it’s anything, Mac users love to nitpick (guilty as charged).
"So, fellow Appleites, I put it to you: What sucks about Firefox on the Mac? Send mail to macfirefox at this domain, and let me know what you think," Mr. Barrett wrote.
Feeback has already been posted so that readers can see what other users have been thinking.
Observer Comments
I like the interface, so please leave me the option of using it the way it is now.
It renders just fine on my PPC Mac and my Intel Mac, as long as I use optimized (Bon Echo) versions, but it could definitely be faster in general.
Upload support for sftp would be nice so I can use it with secure sites.
A page zoom feature would be great of those of us with crummy vision.
Ability to use the keychain, while still keeping a separate password manager.
QuoteGuest wrote:
Self explanatory.
Make it a Cocoa based app that uses services and all the other nice built-in things in OSX. Go look at OmniWeb, it's got the best user interface of any browser I've ever used.
I agree. The popup menus, radio buttons, checkboxes, and other features are direct copies of Windows. They have that flat, incomplete look that IE and Firefox have on Windows. (Vista and IE 7 might be different.)
If you want to use a REAL Mac browser--not just a ported Windows application, besides OmniWeb (which is not free), one that's quite fast, try Camino. It still has some problems, mostly with embedded QuickTime movies, but another version (1.1) is in testing that might fix this. It also uses the Mozilla engine, like Firefox. Camino doesn't have the wide range of extensions/plug-ins that Firefox does, but, so far, I haven't found that to be an issue. It doesn't do RSS, for example, but I use NetNewsWire for that.
If you want extreme flexibility, with lots and lots of options and preferences AND one of the few truly compliant browsers for the Mac, try iCab.
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